Albrecht D%C3%BCrer

Albrecht Drer was a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Drer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his highquality woodcut prints. He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor Maximilian I.

Drer was born onMay 1471, third child and second son of his parents, who had between fourteen and eighteen children. His father, Albrecht Drer the Elder, was a successful goldsmith, originally Ajtsi, who in 1455 had moved to Nuremberg from Ajts, near Gyula in Hungary. The German name Drer is a translation from the Hungarian, Ajtsi. Initially, it was Trer, meaning doormaker, which is ajts in Hungarian . A door is featured in the coatofarms the family acquired. Albrecht Drer the Younger later changed Trer, his fathers diction of the familys surname, to Drer, to adapt to the local Nuremberg dialect. Albrecht Drer the Elder married Barbara Holper, the daughter of his master, when he himself became a master in 1467.

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